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May 31, 2024 Donald Trump Convicted
Former President Donald Trump has been convicted on felony charges of falsifying business records to conceal crimes. Cato's Clark Neily discusses the trial in the context of how criminal prosecutions work generally.
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13 min
May 31, 2024 What Impedes Social Mobility?
Social mobility means helping people improve their prospects for creating and building long-term wealth. What stands in the way? The Archbridge Institute's Gonzalo Schwarz discusses what he's learned.
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13 min
May 29, 2024 Assessing the Intelligence Risks of Chinese-Made Drones
Should Congress take steps to ban certain foreign-made drones that, despite being owned and used by Americans in a wide variety of helpful ways, could be sending sensitive data to antagonistic foreign governments? Will Duffield discusses the state of play.
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15 min
May 28, 2024 Trump, RFK Jr., and the Libertarian Party
Two notably illiberal politicians headlined at the Libertarian Party's convention over the weekend. What does it reveal about the brand of libertarianism advanced by the LP? Aaron Steelman and Andy Craig comment.
Related: “Trump is hardly libertarian. But neither is today’s Libertarian Party.” By Peter Goettler, The Washington Post, May 23, 2024
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13 min
May 27, 2024 New Leadership in Taiwan as China Threat Looms
Will a new president in Taiwan mean a greater focus on defending against a potential Chinese attack? Eric Gomez comments.
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17 min
May 25, 2024 How the ‘Open Fields Doctrine’ Nullifies the Fourth Amendment
How much US land receives Fourth Amendment protections under the so-called "Open Fields Doctrine"? Authors Joshua Windham and David Warren explore that issue in a new article in Regulation Magazine.
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16 min
May 24, 2024 Marking a Century of Broken Immigration Policy
Should the government prove you shouldn't be allowed to immigrate, or should individuals have to prove that they should be allowed to immigrate? A century ago today, immigration policy shifted from the former to the latter. David Bier explains how the change has implicated Americans’ rights.
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15 min
May 23, 2024 The Fatal Fallacy for Fans of CBDCs
The notion that there can ever be a "level playing field" between decentralized, private cryptocurrencies and state-issued ones is entirely wrong. Nick Anthony explains.
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10 min
May 22, 2024 John Stuart Mill, Harriet Taylor Mill, and The Subjection of Women
The contours of freedom advanced in The Subjection of Women apply to us all. The influence of his wife, Harriet Taylor Mill, in the work’s final form is hard to miss. That is in part why the essay remains a favorite of Libertarianism.org's Grant Babcock.
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12 min
May 21, 2024 A Guide to Content Moderation for Policymakers
Humility is a good starting point for lawmakers seeing to understand content moderation. David Inserra offers a helpful guide to policymakers.
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14 min

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Every Tuesday on The Cato Weekly Podcast, leading scholars and policy analysts from the Cato Institute delve into the big ideas shaping our world: individual liberty, limited government, free…